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BIX MEDrORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFO' Sreryona III Southern Oreiom Reads tha Mall Trmnne" Dally Except Baturday Published by MZDFORD PRJNTINO CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phone J141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GIL.STRAP. Uanafer HERB GREY. Advertlslnsj MlT. I. C. FERGUSON, Msnsjlnr Editor ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER. 8oc. Editor GERALD LATHAM, ClrCUlaUon Mrr. An Independent Newspaper Xntered ei second claae matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2y Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year... 7 SO Dally and Sunday six montha 4.00 Dally and Sunday three mos. 2.10 Dally and Sunday one month .78 By Carrier In Advence Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Jackson ville, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year....ae 00 Dally and Sunday one month .75 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medferd Official Paper of Jacasoa tonniy UniUd Preiav Toll Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertlitn Representative WTST.HOLL1DAY COMPANY. WC, Offices In New York, Chicago, De troit, Ban rranclsco, Los Angelea, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver, fl. C. ORE C10Q4 PmiishicR, )lAII0 Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry The nation-wide meat strike aet for Jan, 16, "put the labor union cause on thin Ice, com' mentator claims. However, the Ice won't be as thin as the post war steaks, cutlets, and chops, are cut. "Then there Is another group of motorists who never did learn how to drive but are always on the road." (Exchange) They would be, and howl e e e The state department, also the war department, announced that "it Is not necessary that Gen. MacArthur be consulted In ad vance, relative to what the Big Three did at Moscow on plans for the remaking, revamping, and remudelllng of Japan, Gen. MacArthur being In charge thereof. The nation, however, feels this Is no time for history to mildly repeat Itself, and start 'clearing everything' with Pre mier Molotov, Instead of Sidney e e e The Vikings of Salem tangle tonight on the maple court with the B. Tornado quint. The visi tors have been no great shakes In HS. athletics since Pearl Har bor, but hope this year to get back in the public eye, ear, and nose. They have formed a Dad's club to back and boost Salem high squads, plan a turf field next fall for football, and a basketball court for state meets, commodious enough for all comers, instead of the former combination sardine-can and cigar-box. Tills Is quite a dis play of civic spunk. Visiting atari will no longer be rouslngly booed, or have the hair on their legs pulled when they get too close to the Salem rooters' sec tion. The president, a popular, sin cere official, but a clumsy poli tician. In his radio talk to the nation, hits at a sleepy congress. He docs not even point a firm forefinger, at sends of Washing ton, D. C, bureaucrats, frequent ly revealed as entirely too much awake. e e e HOW THINGS SHAPE UP (Gcrvais Star) "We curse the weather, the rain, the fog; wo even curse and beat our dog; we curse to vent our spleen against the man with tha long green, that we might have had if we had also made the eagle scream. What we want to say Is that we can't regulate the weather, nor recapture the money we have foolishly spent." e e e "Hectic housing hesitation harass hopes of habitation." (Hdline Christian Science Moni tor) Hitting the nail Instead of the thumb. e "Although it's a rather damp ish one, this need not necessarily be such a "winter of discontent" after all. We'll wager many a highly colorful seed catalog Is being poured over right at this moment. " (Coos Bay Times) What with? "Marmaduke McGillicudy of White Cloud, Kan., it again a guest of the Cornelius Applegate family on Cow creek. Cue to the war and especially gasoline rationing he has not been out for three years. He is still driv ing his old Model T Ford with recapped tires. He was delayed a bit en route. At Wamego ne had to tow a banker In Pack ard three miles to a filling station and at Brookvllle pulled a Mercury out of the ditch. It had blown tire." (Lyons (Kan.) News). Andre Jacques Garnerln made a spectacular balloon flight in honor of Napoleon l'l corona tion In 180i. rider. Jan. Babson Discusses New Ideas By Foti.r W. Babson Babson Park, Mass., Jan. 4 (Special Correspondence) At the close of each year I like to go through the various interest ing Inventions of the preceding year. They always give me In spiration and make me certain that there are opportunities enough for those who will use their heads and legs. I will not discuss atomic bombs or radar or electronics or plastics or other things which have been dis cussed In the papers and maga zines. Rather, 1 take the appar ently Insignificant things In the belief that they, In the aggre gate, may do much more for in dividual readers of my column. Many Innovations Wait Exploitation One of the simplest, and yet may be revolutionary. Is the de velopment of confections, cakes and other food products by the use of starch sponge. To Jump to the other side of the spectrum, we find the use of fog to put out fires. 'May I continue without comment: Nonbrcakable Incan descent lamp bulbs ... ice boxes with revolving interiors . . . elec tric switches which work with a delayed action of three minutes . . , windows made of glass strips like Venetian blinds . , . new "smoke screens" to protect or chards and groves against frosts and Insects . . , paint mixed with D.D.T. to kill flies and mosqui toes. A year ago I mentioned the new art of recording music, mes sages , etc., on magnetized wire; well this is now on the market. A new one that hasn't yet been marketed la truly hole-proof stockings made out of ramie In stead of cotton or rayon ... a machine for projecting reading matter on the celling so you can read actually lying down . . . new methods of home heating where the heat radiates through the plaster, eliminating regis ters, radiators, etc. ... a new packaged kitchen" whereby the refrigerator, stove, Inciner ator and dish washer will be a part of the same machine . , , a new flooring known as stono- leum which can be applied di rectly over concrete floors avoid ing dust and cracking a new machine to automatically figure dividends, pay rolls and do bill ing at the speed of 4,000 per hour. Salesman vs. Inventors Never-Ending Contest As - the vacuum cleaner put grandma's whisk broom out of business, the new electric dust rilsMIMIMIIIIISIMMIIIlMIMlfMMMMtf MMHIMHW On The Side-By e. v. Duriing I (Distributed by King l.,lH,MM.MIH.MMI.IItM..MM Ah, my beloved, fill tha cup that clears To-day of past reireU and future fearal To-inorrowl Why to-morrow may he My!f with yesterday's seven tliotiiand years. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too Into the dust descend; Pint Into dust, under dust to He, Sans wlue, sans song, sans singer and aans endl Omar Khayyam. Now I have a reader who says his business, for the past 00 years, has been taking excess weight off Jockeys In a hurry. Claims he removes from three to eight pounds of flpsh from a Jockey's frame In one sitting. He says he could do likewise with a buxom female. While he would not care to make a practice of It, he would be glad to quickly streamline any actress whose plumpness Is causing her con cern or hindering her career. He specifically refers to Carole Landls who was recently des cribed In a dispatch as being "buxom". This was an error. Tho glamorous and eye arresting Miss Landls Is as streamlined as ever. Tall People Clubs for tall young people continue to be organized throughout the country. They have surh names as the Tip Top pers, Starscrapers, Skyllners, etc. I have heard the theory advanced that youngsters born and brought up In the vicinity of powerful radio stations are likely to be above the average In height. I am trying to check on this curious claim. Do you know any youngsters born near malor broadcasting stations? Diet With restaurant orders of ham and eggs In the middle west and south you get potatoes. In New Enelnnd you do not. This, says a Chlcngoan. Is an Inexcusable omission because ham and eggs without potatoes does not con stitute a balanced dirt and Is bad for the health. This is an interesting claim. It Inspires the question as to which of the characteristic diets of the vari ous sections of the United States Is the best balanced. Also what national diet L the best bal anced? Certainly not that of Germany, or of Japan, England, or Italy. As a matter of fact, is there a national diet which meets with the complete appro val of modern dieticians? Says He "Why is It a woman who Is collector destroys tha dust so that even a bag is unnecessary. A new type of oil coating house wives can use to prevent fruits and vegetables from getting dry and prevent ham and other meats from getting moldy Is be ing sold. To offset this, the vacu um cleaner salesmen will offer a new electric clothes brush! We will no longer need to telephone our telegrams but simply write them and drop them in a slot I and they will be delivered by j facsimile television. i Some G. I. men will be selling ; fountain pens which need filling j only once in ten years, and new dry-cell batteries which will out last two hundred of the old- fashioned kind. The bedroom windows will rise and fall auto matically by pushing a button under your pillow (I already have one); while old-fashioned window screens will be seen only In museums. I could write a column on new plans for the frozen food Industry and also forecast that your grandchildren will break no dishes or glass ware why? because they can't be broken The best opportunl ties, however, will como to those who SELL these things rather than to the Inventors. Chemical Products Enticing Prospect Great steps are being taken in colored photography for am ateurs. I expect soon to have an electronic bread toaster on my table, requiring no cord con nection with the wall. During 1045 one of the leading invest ment houses sold stock for an entirely new process of market ing powdered fruit Juices. 1045 showed great strides in florcs cent lighting. All our garden seeds may soon be immunized so that no bugs will attack the plants. New developments in x ray read like fairy talcs. Hundreds of new uses for rub ber are in the offing while ml crophotography has some sur prises. We must also remember the possibilities in ply-wood and super-rayon. Electronic eye glasses may do for the nearly blind what hearing-aids are do ing for the deaf. New synthetic foods, flavors and aromas have great possibilities and the rayon factories may soon be turning out candles, cookies and other food r oducts. PLEASE DON'T WRITE ME FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS REGARDING ANY OF THE ABOVE THINGS. I AM NEITHER AN INVENTOR NOR CHEMIST BUT AM MERELY PASSING ALONG NEWS AND DREAMS. Features Syndicate, Inc.) '" t MIIMM senslblo In most other ways be comes so silly, stupid and slav ishly Imitative where styles are concerned?" asks a New York husband. "Take the matter of tho hair. Why do women have it clipped when if they let It stay long It would enable them to have It arranged so many dif ferent ways? With their hair cut short women are limited. It seems to me they all look alike. That Is skimpy In the back, too smooth down In front and a funny looking knot on top. They resemble Louise ' Fazenda playing a harassed housemaid In in old Mack Sennett comedy." Asking Query from client. Q. Have you straightened out the story of George Washington throwing a silver dollar across some river? A. Washington Irving in his "Life of George Washing ton", wrl'ten In 1855, said: "At Fredericksburg, near the lower ferry, Washington, when a boy. threw a stone across the Rappa hannock." That Is undoubtedly the true story. I don't know who storted the yarn about the toss ing of the silver dollar. All the writers I have noted making a reference to this feat were poor reporters. Not one stated what the distance in feet or yards across the Rappahannock Is where Washington allegedly threw the stone or dollar. Asides The tilings I lose most are pencils and pocket combs. On the other hand, there are certain things I never lose. In all my life I have never lost a key, a penknife or a Mutuel ticket . . . In New Work recently an 18-year-old boy stole a nickel from another lad. He was arrested and given a Jury trial. It has been estimated this trial cost the city's taxpayers $1500! Wonder what a major murder trial costs the taxpayers? Pasting By George B. Evans. Press agent j extraordinary. Specializes in clever and subtle exploitation which inspires females to go wild ovei crooners. Ceorge made Rudy Vallec famous. Also Frank Sinatra . . , Judith Evelyn. Truly brilliant actress. Without a play again. That is a situation which should not exist. Why should the public be deprived of the pleasure of seeing the clever Miss Evelyn act? I guess 1 will have to write a play for her my self. I'll start on It tomorrow. That's when I start work on all my novels and plays; tomorrow. Hobby Donald Blake, of Chicago, has a collection of 400 phonograph records. Included in this are 274 Bing Crosby records. That's quite a collection. However, I know a fellow In Baltimore who has as many records. His spec ialty Is collecting recordings of the same song made by differ ent singers. For example, he has all the recordings made of "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." News Behind The News By Paul Malloo Washington, Jan. 4 Private but official word was passed around here when Mr. Byrnes went to Mos cow- that the success of his surprising pil grimage could be valued by whether he succeeded 1 n inducing For eign Minister Molotov to take part in the big United Nations inaug- taul Maflno u r a 1 sessions In London, coming up January 10. Senators, congressmen and others were furnished this in ner explanation of the venture. They were told the state secre tary was worried about the suc cess of the UNO peace setup, if the Russians passed it off with minor representation. Thus an insignificant two paragraph statement from the Kremlin this week aroused more apprehensive interest among the knowing authorities here than you could possibly have attached to it. The item ran to the effect that Molotov was tired from his arduous ef forts and would send his assist ants to the London meeting. e e VUIR. BYRNES did not appear umisiinllv tired to those nearest him, although he flew both . ways on his Christmas journey, and prepared immedi ately to leave for Britain to lend the prestige of his high office to the peace machinery which all the nations had set up at San Francisco. Simultaneously, the news came out that Russia had not ratified the Bretton Woods agreement within the time Urn it, an agreement in which all the nations of the world, except five small countries, were to restore financial peace. These developments could not avoid creating a question, if not a new world problem. The ques tion asks if Russia is embarked upon a diplomatic program to break down the power of the United Nations organization or to sidetrack it into a secondary or obscure world role. In that combination of all the world's nations Russian power has prov ed to be less than among the big five C"ROM Mr. Hull's first visit to Moscow and through every conference, including Mr. Byrnes' last flight, every an nouncement of results confirmed the basic Russian position. But at San Francisco, where she had to encounter the whole world, she had to make some compromise, even though re turning the veto power in the controlling big five council. The smaller nations made headway there. The new world problem runs even deeper into the very core of the peace. The Byrnes-Stalin formula sets up a United Na tions control of Japan, . main taining the Russian veto power (as well as ours, of course, but we could hardly be expected to veto our own acts). see IN no other nation is this Unit ed Nations theory of control set up by the Byrnes-Stalin agreements not in Romania or Bulgaria, both conquered coun tries, and not in the troubled zones of communist revolutions, namely, Iran and China. A Russian Isolationism, pro tected by the sharpest censor ship and exclusion, has been ac cepted by the Big Three in vio lation of the very fundamental theory of United Nations world management for the Russian conquest zones. Is the United Nations theory to be pursued? Only in Japan? Are the bilateral agreements which Russia had been making with individual countries in Eu rope, directly and Indirectly, to be woven Into the United Na tions organization fabric? Will UNO accept such concessions to Russia contrasting to its own Ideal? Will Messrs. Byrnes and Bcvln, together with Mr. Molo- tov's assistants, push the UNO Into this vague realm In contrast with its purposes? e e e THE only Inkling of an answer I have found behind events Involves a curious little circum stance, which may be important. Mr. Byrnes did not take his right-hand adviser, Januj Dunn, to the Moscow conference. But now Mr. t Dunn is going to London, not as a Byrnes ad visor, but in even a more im portant -position as representa- tiva of Mr. Byrnes on the coun cil of foreign ministers to write those Bulgarian, Romanian and other treaties which Mr. Byrnes made in Russia. The right-hand adviser Is to compose the texts of the treaties or at least be our representa tive in composing them al though he was left at home and excluded from the Moscow agreements to make them. (Mr. Byrnes will be busy with UNO.) What does all this mean? Per sonally, I think the great em phasis Mr. Byrnes has placed on his Moscow agreements will decline. One-sided Justice re quires world support to be ef fective. The world did not take Munich.- I do not believe it will swallow this one, certainly not whole. On the other hand, the ob vious fairness and equal Justice of the UNO has popular support in the world, a support which is limited only by its failure to achieve a greater degree of equal Justice. Keep these delicate nuances of the underlying situation in mind when you read the news from London. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Kdltur must Deal the name and address ol the writer Blthiiuxh the use ul e pen-name ol initials tor publirstlun Is permis flhle 1'he Mall Tribune reserve the right to edit sll letters with s view to clarity and cnndensaUnn Tha Miracle Circle To the editor: The article in last Wednesday's Tribune rela tive to revival of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland recalled to me some ideas I developed on this subject while confined by war necessities to that world capital of booster-cities, Los Angeles. Could it have been I was homesick for Oregon? It could. Without entering Into the merits of "boosterism" except to say that I'm "agin the Los An geles type, I would like to offer these ideas to the sponsors of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland for what the ideas are worth. First, the name, Shasta-Cascade Wonderland, is too long and unwieldy. I would suggest instead, Shascadia, an easily pronounced, easily remembered derivation from the names, Shasta and Cascade. Second, the area in question could be dramatized and more firmly established in the public mind by calling it, say, The Miracle Circle. I have in mind a circular area, with a radius of 100 miles, centered a little northwest of Weed, Calif. Note the "rememberability" of the lump figure, 100. Such an area would extend from Crater Lake on the north to Mt. Lassen and the city of Red Bluff on the south, and from Alturas on the east to Eureka, Crescent City. Brookings and Gold Beach on the west, Including the beauti ful coastal strip between Eureka and Gold Beach. The "Miracle Circle" would include an unmatchable aggrega tion of scenery, such as Crater Lake, Mt. Shasta, the redwoods Lassen National Park, the Ore gon Caves, the Trinity Alps, the Lava Beds, and the Pacific shoreline. While this dips into the "Redwood Empire," it seems the overlapping could be amic ably worked out. Of course, the center of the "Miracle Circle" could be shifted east ward so as to stay pretty well out of the "Redwood Empire" while Including the remainder of the features mentioned. But this would be a pity, as nothing much would be gained to the east while the redwoods and the Pacific shoreline would be lost to the west. While I am no publicity man It strikes me that none could ask for more thon this two na tional parks, the most impres sive mountain peak (Shasta) in me united States, mountains lakes, and forests galore, hunt ing, fishing and camping. wnewi ALMUS PRUITT. Local Man For Congress To the editor: I have ahnut decided to run for Congress on this platform: To definitely determine whetb er or not the late Preslrlpnt Roosevelt Induced the Jods tn at. tack Pearl Harbor; also to as slst the republican members in finding out for sure who it was that struck Billv These are burning issues. WM. E. PHIPPS, Sr. SEATTLE SEES HOPE AVERTING BUS STRIKE By United Preig City officials and union bus cirivcrs were reported "a little closer to agreement" today in a wage dispute that threatened to result In a city-wide bus strike In Seattle Jan. 12. Meanwhile, a brief meeting of publishers and striking Seottle printers yesterday ended in a stalemate and a new meeting In an effort to end a six-week-old strike was tentatively set for today. WHERE LUMBER GOES St. Helens. Ore., Jan. 4 lU.R) Some 3,000,000 feet of lumber destined for southern California was being loaded aboard the Ore gon Fir here today. Three other ships were expected to dock t St. Helens before the 15th of this month to pick up cargoes of locally-manufactured lumber. I'se Mail Trieune Want Ads. HOUSING LACK IS TOUGHFQR VETS Outlook for Married Men Planning to Enroll in Win ter and Spring, Still Bad Salem, Ore., Jan. 4 flJ.R) Married veteranj planning to enroll in Oregon schools of high er learning this winter and next spring will find living accommo dations nearly as hard to obtain as they were during the fall Director of Veteran's Affairs Hugh E. Rosson said today, A survey of 18 Oregon col leges and universities conducted by the state department of vet erans' affairs shows that singli veterans usually can be housed adequately but married veterans will have trouble finding living facilities. More To Enroll Even so, veteran enrollment for the winter and spring terms is expected to be double or even triple that of the fall term, Ros son said. xnrougn the survey, It was Indicated that a single veteran is able to squeeze by" on G.I. educational subsistence allot ments, while, the married vet eran in most, cases has to supple ment nis allotment with part- time employment. However, congress' recent action increas ing G.I. allotments is expected to greatly alleviate the condi tion, school officials told the veterans' affairs director. 375 At O. S. C. a summary of the survey snows mat uregon state College, t-orvams, nad 375 veterans en rolled during the fall term and 700 are anticipated for the win ter term. The housine situation in Corvallis is classed as "des perate." But approximately 25 federal housing units are being erected for college-going veter ans and their families and more are expected soon. Although no report was re ceived from the University of Oregon, .the situation is nearly m same as at Corvallis. Willamette university In aaiem nas no veterans register ed for the fall term, and 75 to 100 are expected for the spring semester starting March 11 Single mtn are living in the YMCA and private homes, but married veterans are having a tough time of it. The university Is attempting to find housing for married veterans through newspaper advertising. Next spring the university will use a campus fraternity house for single veterans. Portland Better In Portland the University of Portland has 107 fall term vet erans registered with 300 total expected for the spring semester starting the end of this month Housing for single veterans is ample and married veterans and their families can find fair accommodations in university homes and federal housing pro jects. Multnomah college In Port land has much the same sltua tion as Portland university. However Multnomah has 240 veterans already in school with 50 to 100 more expected during the spring semester which starts January 28. Control Board For Cordon's Bill To Reimburse Counties Salem, Ore., Jan. 4 (U.R) The State Board of Control In a special meeting with Sen. Guy Gordon, Ore., R., endorsed the so-called Cordon bill now pend ing in congress which would re imburse counties in lieu of taxes on federally owned forest lands, Gov. Snell said today. In addition to the board and Sen. Cordon, the meeting, held yesterday, was attended by For rest Cooper, Lakeview, Ore., le gal representative of the public lands committee of the 11 west ern states. F. L. Phipps, the Dalles, secretary of the Associa tion of Oregon counties, and Judge U. G. Reeder, Klamath Falls. 1,213.840 NAVY MEN OUT SINCE WAR END Washington, Jan. 4 (U.R) The navy announced today that it discharged 59,535 officers and men during the week ended Dec 29. This orought total navy re leases to 1,213,840. The marine corps has dis charged 183,307 and the coast guard 69,709. TRANSPORT IN TOW San Francisco, Jan. 4 ill.R) The navy transport St. Mary's, disabled on the high seas by a burned out engine bearing, was under tow b the cruiser Nash ville tonight and scheduled to arrive here tomorrow. HEIFETZ DIVORCED Santa Ana, Calif., Jan. 4 flJ.R) Violinist Jascha Helfetz, who testified that his wife made scathing remarks in the presence of their friends, about his fiddl ing, today held an interlocutory divorce from silent screen star Florence Vidor. 1 Teen-Age Suicide ! Bequeaths Bike to Young Girl Friend San Diego, Jan. 4 0J.R) Thirteen-year-old Lyle Dodson today wrote a suicide note to his ten-age girl friend who ap parently refused his love, be queathing her his bicycle and expressing undying love for ner, and then pulled the trigger on his .22 calibre rifle pressed against his ear. He died in stantly. In his note to Joan Lepper, who lived only a few houses away in the Linda Vista federal housing project, Lyle told of his love. "You will never know now much' I love you," his message said. Police were summoned to the Dodson home by Lyle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Omer Dodson, who discovered his body lying face down on his bed, after hearing a shot. Livestock Portland, Or., Jan. 4 (UP.) Livestock: Cattle 23, calvei none. Mostly cleanup market at weak prices. Can-ner-cutter cowi 6 .50-8 .50; ahella down to $5.00; medium sausage bull! $9.50; steers lacking; rood fed steers thli week S16.30-17.25, early top $17.65; best heifers $16.00: very few cows above $13.00; calves salable steady; good-choice vealera quotable $14.00-13.00 or above. Hogs 30. Steady; 200-287 lb. bar rows and gilts $13.80: 140 lbs. $15-00 good sows $14.25; late Thursday large lot choice 50 lb. feeder pigs $14.00; sorted with 30 lb. weights at $10.00; choice above 100 lb. feeder pigs quot- ie to ejia.au. Sheep none. Nominal. Good-choice wooled lambs salable $14.00-14.25 or above; top Thursday $14.25; food ewes salable $4.50-5.00. Portland Produce Portland, Jan. 4(UJ.) Wholesale market prices: Eggs To retailers: AA grade, large 54c; A large 52c; A medium 47c; small Ipullct) 43c. Broccoli Local $1.50-1.60 lug. Cabbage Oregon No. 1, 2.25-3.30; Oswega $4 per crate. Cauliflower Local $1.73-3.00 crate. California $1.73 crate. Garlic Oregon 35-40& S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Jan. 4 (U.R) Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 4814, 92 score 48, 90 score 47. Cheese: Loafs 28.2, triplets 27.2. Eggs: Large grade A 53 V4, medium grade A 48V4, small grade A 42 Vi, large grade B 47 4. Wall Street New York. Janl 4 (U.R) Stocks moved irregularly today on reduced volume. Railroad issues led a recovery for a time on gains running to more than a point. However, the industrial groun failed to keep pace with the carriers and late in tne day most of the lead ers registered losses. Preliminary elosincr nnw..Tnnpe stock averages: Industrials, 190. au, on u.33; rails 62.59, up 0.43; utilities 38.10, off 0.12; 65 stocks 71.58, up 0.03. Sales totaled 1.070.000 shares compared with 1.390.000 yester day. Today's closing? nrlcea on se lected stocks: American Tel. Sc. Tel. 189 Anaconda 4354 Chrysler 13214 Curtiss Wright : 7's General Electric 47 General Motors 7a.4 Montgomery Ward 72 i Penn. R. R. . 42 Phillips Petroleum . 56 14 J. C. Penney 150 ! 171. I Radio Southern Pacific 58 Stand. Oil of California 47 Texas Gulf Sulphur 48 Trans-America 20 United Aircrafts 341,4 U. S. Rubber 66 U. S. Steel 80 PLATES BUT NO CAR Billinss. Mont . .Inn inoi John Fox, of Billings, had his 1946 license plates today, but no Car to mit thpm nn Pa naflr ed in front of police headquart ers yesterday while he went across the street to buy- plates and returned to find the car hnrl been stolen. MEXICANS BATTLE ' Mexico fTirv .Ton A mm Unofficial reports from Leon, Guanajuato state, said today that 100 Dei-sons u-pm HmI 00 wounded as a result of a ciasn yesterday between political 1 rioters and federal troops. j Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. ' Stenographer PERMANENT POSITION, STATE EXPERIENCE IN FIRST LETTER BOX 1 05 MAIL TRIBUNE Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co. His tory from tha files of tha Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 Ta a 00. TEN YEARS AGO Januay 4. 1936 at Was Saturday) Crater Lake roads closed when snow plow breaks. Oregorwcoast lashed by storm. "Work or starve" rule cuta 50,000 Los Angeles residents from relief rolls. Roosevelt message to Con irre over radio. . called "cam paign speech", and undignified. Rain or snow. High 48, low 39. TWENTY YEARS AGO January 4, 192B (It Was Monday) King Carol of Rumania re linquishes his throne for love of red-haired Jewess. Schools resume after Christ mas holiday. Congress expects to pass tax cut bill in March. Rain. High 40, low 37. Continued rains flood Europe, and threaten heavy losses. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO January 4. 1912 at Was Thursday) Admiral Robley D. (Fighting Bob)- Evans, Spanish war hero and Idol of the navy, dies sud denly. Sen. Hitchcock charges arbi tration treaties are part of plot to involve America in Euro pean war. Cloudy and cold. High 27, low 22. Medford now has nine voting precincts, an increase of five. STOCKHOLDERS BALKED vVashlngton, Jan. 4 U.R) The supreme court has refused to review a stockholders' suit contesting a plan of reorganiza tion for Commonwealth and Southern Corp., a public utility holding company. The stock holders group, appealing from an adverse ruling by the third circuit court of appeals, con tended that the plan was unfair to the Interests of common stockholders. The bill for establishment of a branch United States mint in California is dated July 3, 1852. L. C. TAYLOR CO. pays tha HIGHEST MARKET PRICES If you have a CAR or TRUCK to tell, we advise telling It now. Call er Phone Dodge-Plymouth Dealer L G. TAYLOR GO. Phone 2965 CORNER OF W. 6TH and HOLLY . v. YV
